The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 4, 1931, Page 4

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CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON ———$ $$ Pistols and Love | ‘The tragedy which shocked Bismarck Tuesday proves that love may be a fearful as well as a wonderful thing. So far as the authorities have been able to determine, the cause of a murder and suicide was the unrequited ‘affection of a man for a maid. The world is full of such instances and they form one of the favorite ingredients) of popular romance. It is fortunate that they rarely; result fatally. Most of us can remember when the “puppy love” stage ‘was reached and how we mooned around, half in fear of some vague calamity and half in delicious ecstasy. ‘There is nothing which quite compares with it when 1t) comes to lifting one to the Elysian heights or plunging him into the darkest depths, for it is a condition which exists within one’s self and which the average person shares with no one. In those cases where the object of the current affec- tion proves cool, nature has a way of making adjust- ment. The fiction authors to the contrary, there are few persons who die of broken hearts. That trustyworthy; organ may be patched, and often very successfully, But occasionally there comes into the world a person} of such emotional intensity or of such peculiar mental make-up, that he cannot withstand the shock which a failure in an affair of the heart entails. Such persons brood over their situation. They think dire thoughts and—as in the tragedy Tuesday—they sometimes put them into execution. ‘The result is shocking to the rest of us whom Provi- dence has endowed with a more pliable philosophy, even though many a man and woman can easily recall the wild and foolish thoughts which once flitted through} his brain in a similar situation, either real or fancied. ‘There is, of course, no object in attempting to draw a moral from such cases, because each is peculiar to itself and shaped by the personalities which enter into the situation. But if a moral there must be one could fit- tingly observe that love and pistols make an untrust- worthy combination. Two Chances Albert B. Fall, one-time secretary of the interior and infamous as the official convicted of accepting a bribe to influence him in signing away the people's property, must go to prison. Thousands of persons have gone to prison in this country and for crimes much less grave than that of which Fall was convicted. Putting them in the peniten- tiary was a simple matter and one over which no time was wasted. In most cases the persons sentenced were neither prominent nor important. They had broken the Jaw and must be punished. That was all there was to it. But Fall's case is not so simple. Here is a man who nce sat in the councils of the mighty. He was one of the princelings in a powerful political organization. He hhad vast power and authority. In a very real sense of the word as it is used today, he was “Somebody.” The glory which once was Albert B. Fall's and the pomp which once belonged to a secretary of the interior} has been shorn from him. Today he stands before the bar of justice a felon, his technical status no different. than that of a man convicted of stealing horses, If 29 | have served its purpose. ity to instruct the family circle on the general subject of what a real guy he was when he was a youngster— and thereby earn a disapproving frown and a bedroom lecture from Mother. a prison riot—in the state penal farm at Vandalia, Il. this time, where some 600 men were awaiting transfer to a modern new building. in the matter of discovering how to prevent such riots; indeed, our method of coping with them after they start is still just what it always was. They occur sporadically, Results of the London wheat conference will of neces- sity be intangible and mostly educational. Agreement was reached on one point, however. Most of the del- egates felt that the wheat acreage should be reduced. How to effect the reduction is a more difficult matter. Approval was given to the creation of @ permanent commission to disseminate wheat statistics, Interna- tional cooperation in the handling of all grain surplus would be a long stride in the right direction. If the London conference initiates such cooperation, it will Russia is growing wheat near to water transportation at a very low labor cost, as are other European coun- tries. This is a disturbing factor in the marketing of wheat. The action of the Soviet government, through the five year plan, has practically put the United States out of the wheat export business except at ruinous prices. Russia is dumping wheat on the world market at any price it will bring. Senator Capper in a recent article in the New York Times gives us an interesting world wheat picture. To quote in part: “As far as the American wheat grower is concerned, there are just two markets for his wheat. “First, and to my mind the most important, is the domestic market; the United States, in other words. That market, in round numbers, can consume some 600,000,000 to 650,000,000 bushels of wheat annually. “Second, there is what is known as the world market, which, as a matter of fact, 1s confined largely to western Europe. There is no market for American wheat in South America, nor in Eastern Europe, nor in Africa, and only a poten- tial market in the Orient. So when we speak of the world market we mean western Europe. Before the World war that market was supplied by Russia, the United States, Canada, the Argen- tine, Australia and by some of the smaller coun- tries of eastern Europe. “Before the war the standard of living in the United States was not appreciably so much higher than in the rest of the world. Also, we were a debtor nation. We had to export com- modities in large quantities to pay our foreign creditors. We had not developed our manu- facturing industries to the extent we have since; hence we were in position to export, in fact had to export, largely raw commodities, and wheat was one of them. “Half a century ago nearly one-half of our exports, by volume, were foodstuffs. Nearly one- third were raw, crude materials other than food- stuffs. Less than one-fifth were what are classed as semi-manufactured and finished manufac- tures. Today more than one-half our exports, by value, are finished manufactures; one-seventh are semi-manufactures; one-seventh are food- stuffs; @ little more than one-fifth are crude materials other than foodstuffs. ' “In a general way it might be said that as far as our own export trade is concerned the United States has passed beyond the stage of producing foodstuffs for the world market; the Unitea States has become an exporter of manufactured products, ‘Two leagues have been organized and sandlot baseball appears about to come into its own in Bismarck. Under the leadership of the city's recreation depart- ment, adequate arrangements have been made and the battles for diamond supremacy soon will be in full swing. Many a supper table will be regaled with tales of feats by the household hero and, perhaps, many a supper will cool while Johnny and his pals battle to the bitter end/ u to decide defeat or victory. But whatever the outcome of the fights for the cham- pionships of the two leagues now organized, the effects’ will be beneficial for boys and parents as well as for! the city. To demonstrate superior skill on the baseball field is an accomplishment but one less worth while than that of keeping boys out of trouble. The person who originated the saying “The Devil finds work for idle hands” must just have suffered from an unfavor- able experience with a boy of sandlot baseball age. Mother will approve because of the happiness which; it brings to the pride of her heart and Dad will get his thrill because, in a great many instances, it will enable| f him to live over again by proxy the heroic deeds of his own past. ‘ In some instances, too, it will give Dad fair opportun- Another Prison Riot Once more the newspaper front pages bring news of So far we do not seem to have made much progress New York, June 4—It was Wah Shee, the Oriental gentleman who re- moves scattered notes from my cuffs who supplied the important informa- tion that the anniversary of the first Chinese laundry in America is close to hand. ‘Within a few days, it will be exact- a 5 Sock ’Em, Kids ly 80 years since the first Chinese jJaundry sign appeared in this land. ‘The year was 1851, and the scene was California. Just two years prior to this historic event, the ’49 days were getting under way in a large manner. Something like 500 Chinese had numbered them- selves among the pioneer residents of the gold rush country. And the times being what they were, a clean shirt was of slight con- Sequence. not leave behind them a reputation for changing underwear, or collars, or Socks. Some of the more primitive pictures portray them more interested in “washing” gold than washing wool Shirts and linens, if any. ‘These hardy pioneers did Furthermore, most everything brought a fabulous sum and many were fortunate to leave with a shirt. ‘There were others, managed to buy up whole haber- dasheries and still have plenty of gold however, who for their heirs and assignees forever. * * * ‘The occasion of a Chinese laundry opening was considered front page news in the mining camp belts and in and around San Francisco and Sa- cramento. Paragraphs were devoted to the fact that shirts could now be washed at so many dollars per bundle and hundred. It was an extreme drop in price from former figures, and lat- er records revealed that never had so many clean shirts been seen in the engi and breadth of the golden state. Today, the Chinese laundry is one of our quaint and colorful ‘institu- tions. No matter what the city, the home town Chinese laundry is likely to be there is a difference, it is not in Fall's favor. in widely separated parts of the country, giving evi- America is not ruled by the laws of the Medes and Persians and only the ignorant would contend that there is no such thing as “influence” in our administration of justice, but even the most powerful of friendships pales into insignificance beside the strength of self-interest. dence of some deeply-rooted defect in our whole penal system. Yet we refuse to be worried, and we blandly meet each one as we met the last, confident that ma- chine guns and tear gas bombs will do all that is needed. The prescription doesn’t seem to work very well. How It is only the has-beens among the political big-shots| long will it take us to discover that the whole prison sys- who will dare to plead Fall's appeal for clemency, which is expected to be made to the president. Some of those still in power may feel it is setting a bad precedent to; send a man to prison who has done nothing worse than give away the public resources, but they will not dare to say 80 openly. For Fall has been convicted before the people as well as before @ jury of his peers( His name has come to be the synonym for graft and corruption just as that of Benedict Arnold has come to be associated with the un- savory title of traitor. From Fall's standpoint it is un- fortunate, even though it may be deserved. ‘What makes the situation worse for him is that he ‘was convicted of taking a bribe from a man who was exonerated of giving a bribe. But that is one of the peculiarities of our administration of justice which failed to work in favor of the defendant. He is forced to accept the situation as it stands. And ft looks black for him. Two narrow avenues of escape are open to him and each appears to be blocked by the massive bulk of pop- ular opinion, President Hoover may pardon him, but he hardly will do so, even though the execuflve's political opponents may be praying that he grant the plea. The court may suspend or mitigate the sentence. The reasons for this would be his uncertain health and his ad- ‘vanced age. Fall is well past 70. Of the two reasons the latter would seem the most cogent. Fall has only a few years to live at best and degree discipline, enforced on either students or soldiers, im- proves thelr morale, and better fits them for things other than study or soldieri: |tem needs radical revision? Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. Ti Dublished without regard to whether they ag: er siceares with The Tribe w Dol College Discipline (St. Paul Pioneer Press) A woman member of the Stanford university faculty denounces the rules that fix bedtime hours for girl stu- dents dwelling in that institution's dormitories, She says the practice “babies” the co-eds. But every army has rigid bedtime rules, and we have never heard complaint that their enforcemert softens On the contrary, a‘considerable of ing. But there is another value in any school’s bedtime rules, Attempts at ‘education are more or less wasted upon the unalert. Alertness is obviously promoted by a reasonable amount of sleep. of countless amusements and distractions, the tempta- tion to try to get along with three or four hours of slecp @ night is one that many a student finds it hard to resist, unless compulsion is imposed from above. all, it is the business of a.university girls an education, rather than « good time. And in this day and age After’ to give boys and The R. F. D. System the court may decide that it would be revenge rather: (American Highway) to the last annual report of the postmaster According than justice to send him to the penitentiary—possibly| general, June 30, 1930, there were 6,862,318 families re- to die. But that is about the only consideration to| ceiving mail by the R. F. D. ‘which this malefactor is entitled. Radical or Conservative? system. ‘There are approximately 4.5 families to each mile of surfaced highways in this country outside of cities and towns. Without question the federal government naturally pick the improved highways for the R. F. D.| would A~down-east newspaper reporter who has attended| system, and conversely, local road officials would natur- ‘socialists poles makes| lly ti jumstous meetings of ae “eas Therefore there are 3,50,000 families living on surfaced of the curibus fact that all radicals are plentifully noted that everybody in the such a meeting held in New| Mgovay! irst improve roads over which mail is. delivered. ways visited ‘There are many diseases that con- stantly occur in the mouth. In ad- dition, the mouth is subject to the effects of diseases affecting the body generally. Diseases that are particularly mouth diesases include pyorrhea, which usually begins about middle housed in some dingy looking base- ment or just beyond some back street in a building that possibly was an old shed or a barn. Few members of the Populations ever see the proprietor or his fellow workers, except when laun- dry is delivered. His methods have remained pretty well unchanged dur- ing the years. The old washtub and washboard will not perish from the earth 0 long as the Wah Shees of the country survive. In my own town, it roused a youth- ful curiosity second only to the black- smith shop and the saw mill. xe x And speaking of things Chinese, New York's Chinatown now sits back and, between smiles, sighs with relief. WHEN THE BRITISH TROOPS SET FiRE To A CEOIGREE, ES THIS CURIOUS WORLD age and which may be responsible for the loss of most of the teeth; dental decay, which may be particu- larly a disease of children and young adults; abscesses at the roots of the teeth, which occur at all ages; Vin- cent’s disease or Vincent's angina, sometimes called trench mouth. The studies that have been made on dental decay in recent years in- dicate that if the teeth are kept clean, if the person eats a proper diet with adequate amounts of vitamins A, B, C and D, and if suitable dental care is given to the teeth at least once each year, dental caries is extremely unlikely to occur. Pyorrhea is an infectious condition caused by a germ which gets into the spaces between the teeth, which develop in decomposing particles and which attack the gums where the de- fense is broken down by injury or abrasion. Germs ‘getting into the teeth How to Fight Mouth Diseases Clean Teeth, Right Diet and Yearly Trip to Dentist Important to Keep Healthy through cavities may form abscesses at the roots of the teeth. It is quite possible for such germs to be brought to the roots of the teeth by way of the blood and thus to set up disturb- ances, Trench mouth is ulceration of the tops of the gums caused by germs which live best where there is no oxygen. In addition to the conditions that are particularly diseases of the mouth, general diseases, such as tuber- lead, fect the mouth, causing the teeth to fall out and associated with the de- velopment of ulcers. Thus the person who attempts to treat diseases have not only of the mouth must @ complete knowledge of the structure of the mouth, jaws and teeth, but also of diseases in gen- eral. developed in tology, dealirtg For this Teason, @ specialty has medicine called stoma- particularly with dis- eases of the mouth. Morevoer, good dentists and good physicians work knowledge that both may apply to the situation. A feverish tension has finally been broken. Two tongs, with a long rec- ord for wars and feuds, chose to hold a convention in Manhattan at the same time. No one could account for this parallel of dates unless trouble was anticipated. ‘Tong wars are no longer in favor, and had one broken at this time it would have been most bloody and, furthermore, would have been consid- ered by leading Chinese as the worst possible sort of notoriety. Every pub- lic gesture in the direction of peace and good ‘eeling was outwardly made, what with dragon parades and lan- terns bobbing gayly in the streets. No one knows what went on behind the scenes. Still, on the night both conventions opened, the delegates were invited to the native playhouse. A crowd of about a hundred stood up in the rear. When their pockets were frisked by police, more than a dozen guns were found. ‘That was the last menacing note. Overnight all hints at trouble were silenced. One of Chinatown’s tensest moments had been peacefully passed. GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) All the world is leaning on the United States. —James A. Farrell. CARRIED BACK yg WOULD CONTAIN / I, ©1931 By WEA SERVICE IN Another which took time Seperiant sean NEW RUSSIAN COMMAND On June 4, 1917, General Alexander Brustloff became commander-in-chief Russia at this trograd. On this day at the front the Italians drove the Austrians from sey Gls fete met are bly feel his mid- THE BISMARCK TRI B U World Wheat Picture : : : ‘ Anxious Moments! : PITCHING FOOL :-: ‘YNOPSIS: Bert Rushe quits college against the wishes of his x older brother, “Home ‘Run King” , of @ major.league, his one ambition to become a big her. In college he was “The Pitc! Fool” because his balls and nervy See Sees. Bert has all the luck in the world during the winters big m bacl Ei 2 joney some shows, But his luck stops at romance he is turned Tagen be the only he wants. His seventh season it of the minor leagues and to make a with the Ci feng , Loopers of the major league. He has played of one game and still he doesn’t know whether he will be signed or told to go-back to the sticks, Key YATES and myself were all that were left of the rookies, as we learned for sure the nxt day. Sears came around to the hotel looking like 10 cents worth of Heaven-help-us. The sap had blown the fare-home money Buckbee had given him in one enormous spree to drown his sorrow, and + here he was flat. . “TI got to hustle a job and get some eats,” he said. “What did Buckbee say?” Kirby asked. “Aw, he was right; he said there Was more to the game than pitchin’ an’ I ought to learn what a bat was for, They expect a lot of a guy, don't they?” “Tough,” Kirby remarked, but he had his tongue in his cheek when he said it, | “Beat It Home” ] Sears looked so woel that I took him to one ean | Where do you live?” I asked. | ‘Wheel 5§ | plate was developed, two wet prints made and then I smashed the plate, as I didn’t want evidence laying around loose of what I was gct- ting. Kirby saw it and grinned. “A little better than mine, Bert— | but what the heck—a pitcher is worth more and I'm satisfied,” he said. It was rather late when those prints were finally dried and I took “Could you let the hooch alone if | one with me and left the other to you had a good feed and the price be framed. bal ay eof ‘The morning papers gave me nice ‘That was all I needed; the r mention and a special little para- sap would certainly beat it back if | graph to the effect that I had been ae gi Sears, TU stak Slgnenalled the framed photograph ie yu. er a] Try and get into some bush league of my contract 0, that. ty would for your eats and practice I handed him sufficient money. Minow the. beck de" you kn low the heck do you you'll get it back?” NTO “I don't want it back—beat it learn to grin instead ee Harry when he was in New fork. We lost the next game by a small margin and I didn’t do any great stunts. Neither did they knock me around to any extent and I was quite satisfied. The glamour was home and k of | subsiding. It was a lot like minor sneer,” and I turned to Fe league stuff, in a ware lay the {But can you afford it, Bert?” best you can. But still there was ‘Listen, buddy, I can ec the that feeling that I was, at last, a SEA wale le | Meta e I began to get wires from my Don't let that worry and kee; your mouth shut about it.” P | triends. “An’ I thought was ” he tute ibe nae I hurried back around the cor- hg Till bet you staked the sap,” Kirby said. ‘I don’t kick ‘em when they're down,” was all I said to that. This time Buckbee let me pitch They got I Letter from Harry | Finally a letter came from Harry, and that was unusual, He wrote:— “Kid: You never got wise to me. You'll get a jolt when I tell the first four frames. you that I always believed you'd PE aly single and make the grade. 1 want you to consider that to be so bad in four | believe it. When I was a kid and innings, And I had the same good | §°¢ chance on the Lynn team luck at bat. I was feeling mighty in that little bush league up there fine about ae eae wen.» | {2° manager told me that Td McPherson sald to medi never make a ball player, and he the bit of pause between the fo hooted when I said I wanted to and fifth. “It’s funny he never told be a big I r. me about id it’s queer no- eee “That man later became a scout body pi up before.” 4 ye” slad enough to come after me and t fpally, et ine courage & ask ask me to come and try out. When ‘They put me in as fielder and 1 he told me I'd never make a ball watched Hal McPI Pitch. Player, much less a big leaguer, ‘They got exactly two runs from him I was determined to prove that two. iy ames, and weled by two; | he was dead wrong, When you Pi went fn to shy and T couldn't | yon. 1 knew you and your meters to b, cot "t you. I kner Sree Lenses | ee Taner Jr sed yw ater first PI the third you could never make good. I into first’s » He had knew that you would get sore and fanned the other two. work until you did make good. Second Kk twice and if ; nga he had only reached for the thira, | ‘That wire I sent was to make you which shot in across the mad, and more determined than fence eae Bee | cio soa ferent st ut he thor was “There's only diffe going to be'a ball and didnt strike layed "ball for’ my ents. You al never had to, But you'll Last man, and end of the game making good. Well haves ewell if I could down him. time next winter. Hope all is un- ‘This made the eighth inning I | derstood and forgiven. had pitched in ti ae and I “HARRY.” hadn't made a ve lean one-two- / ‘i three out becnuse in between had | . Well, that certainly made me feel b ts, ‘an ® wooden nickel. I wrote Harry But the old luck and nerve were | & Jong letter of apology. I realized with me. I wot up differently | that he used his head for more than mht ae the apparent de- | Judging balls that came down to the livery each time, and served noth~ & » He had helped me do the ing but the good old ‘and ick. As I looked back I could un- deep drops. Mister bat socked | derstand. He had kept me sore and only the ambient atmosphere Parana cetermined to prove that es, : Till say the yelling was better than And all the time he wanted me to stand opera to my get what I wanted, a big league pend oy the I ae et igniat aes he wanted me to get sal stuff, ome or boost over to the office after dinner.” Beles we S ee ee en six ye: { After gone Kirby Yates | thoroughly understand my ic? came over to me, ball-socking brother. “I heard him—he asked me to I ly ought to have bee: come over, too, That means the | thoroughly happy. i old dotted line,” he wi ex-! I was financially independent, Som more luck than anything of ora ee ee tins 4 AS cutie pitino 8 big tell us we were no good. He sack Bul T equldn's have all the uk, the others here in the locker room.” couldn't win Mavis Merrill—and And so Kirby and I went to the | even right in the midst of my new hotel, cleaned up, dolied up, tried to | fr'she had cn say ser he same pretend that we were calm and tried | me to drop it. -— to do justice to the dinner, watching | , Suddenly new thought came. the minutes drag until it was time | 2,had been. so anxious that I had Before long I would be ying ne. at playing my broth Good publicity stuff! And what a situation! side. It seemed a long wait. finally. out . He gave Don't miss tomorrow’ - me a and exer, ment of “The Pitching ‘poo it Pg ee ae Colle; . ge social life has made blank Bs fo pan bee wtiere the | tempt to duplicate night club ite ot fins hyo for ne [sqred write |New York.—Dr. Lee H. Ferguson of 3 ee ae dead pat any | Western Reserve University, minor league had pald me. But that Geers eee didn’t mat now. I would have The real findings of the Wicker- paid ten times that sum for the | sham commission have been kept privilege of playing in a major | from the public by the wet press and need anti-prohibition influences—Dr. Clar- ence True Wilson. FLAPPER FANNY SAYs, ad: it gecefully. “Can you live up to it?” he asked. “ we 3 go put He had names and Ct frcuagiongl “You'll need hardening. I'll try not to overwork you, but sometimes its best to make a pitcher stick a 33 GLANS PARRA, - Even the poorest te player display ‘2 wiowmee style, aul